Better JPEGs

The latest upgrade to the web site brings better automatic processing of JPEG images.

The Power of Ice

There's always an odd problem to discover when we arrive on site at the observatory. This time it's a fairly minor one. See what the ice over the winter did to our Pole Star camera housing:

Dan points out that this is a high quality expensive camera housing too.

Fixed problem with job synchronisation

If you have submitted any jobs over the last few days you might have noticed that some were getting stuck with a status of "New, allocated".

A crafty plan to get back online... (ish)

A crafty plan to get back online...

Scheduler Upgrades

The job scheduler is upgraded to support Moon-avoidance, the weights are tweaked to attempt to balance the work load a little better and there is a new live display of the job queue available on the website.

Website unavailable this Saturday 23rd March 2013

The Telescope.org web site will be unavailable this Saturday from 5am until the evening (UK times).

Telescope.org is Changing

The time has come for the telescope.org web site to start paying its way.